The Life and Legacy of Layleen Polanco

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 14, 2023

Raquel Willis, trans activist, host of the new podcast Afterlives: The Layleen Polanco Story and author of the new book The Risk it Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation (Macmillan, 2023), talks about the life and legacy of Layleen Polanco, a young trans woman who died in solitary confinement at Rikers Island in June 2019.

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